Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

Find snow sports in “summer” at top South American ski resorts in the Southern Hemisphere. Long known to international elite ...

The Andes Mountains stretch across seven South American countries, giving trekkers a taste of diverse terrains and cultures ...

Inca Rail’s Morning in Machu Picchu tour offers travelers a premium early-morning journey aboard the 360° Train to the iconic ...

The road to Machu Picchu, which morphs into a railway for its most spectacular sector, begins in the Valle Sagrado, or Sacred ...

There has been a huge push to plant native trees across the Andes in recent years. And it’s been a success. This is episode ...

Local legends among the Aymara people, who called the formation the “Devil’s Doorway,” warn that the gate is not to be entered lightly.

As Peruvian biologist Constantino Aucca Chutas sat chewing coca leaves with a local elder high in the Andes ... reforest the mountains and repair vulnerable ecosystems. “A thousand years ago we were ...

Patagonia is a southern region that features a section of the Andes Mountains, with lakes, fjords, and rainforests. The mountain range also breaks the record as the longest continental range in ...

A doorway cut with great precision into the face of a rocky mountain in Peru may be one of ... the structure was 'created by ancient pre-Inca civilizations, while others speculate about ...

The Southern American countries where alpacas roam at high altitude Andes mountain tops of some of the most serene ... the Goddess of growth and fertility in Inca Mythology and revered by Andean ...

Glaciers in the Andes are shrinking at an alarming rate, thinning by 0.7 meters each year, which is 35% faster than the global average. This rapid loss threatens the water supply for around 90 million ...